My friends and I thought about swapping a DOHC VTEC B-series engine into one of our '88-'91 Civic hatchbacks not long after Honda began selling the '92-'93 GS-R. We were pimple-faced, young and ...

Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (VTEC) has become Honda’s best-known technologies since Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (CVCC) was in the 1970s. Coincidentally, while CVCC was ...

When it first came out, I didn't realize that the NSX had VTEC. The truth is, in 1990, I didn't even know what VTEC was. Nobody really did though. It wasn't until one of my high school skateboarding ...

Honda announced a slew of new engine technology today. Earlier we told you about Honda’s clean diesel engine and now the company is saying its tried and true VTEC gasoline engine has been radically ...

Michal studies Automotive Journalism at Coventry University in the UK, and has been writing for CarBuzz since March 2025. He was nominated for student culture piece of the year recently and has been ...

Photo: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Although more than three decades have passed since its launch, the B16 is still one of the greatest engines ever built. It pioneered VTEC (Variable Valve Timing & Lift ...

1.3L I-4 gasoline direct injection, Multiair variable valve control, intercooled turbo, premium unleaded, engine with 177HP (1) 1.5L I-3 gasoline direct injection, DOHC, variable valve control, ...

Peter earned a Bachelor of Archeology and Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and has since joined his love of driving and riding with storytelling. His voice is full of southern ...

The first Honda Civic Type R arrived in the late 1990s as a Japan‑only experiment in turning an everyday hatchback into a ...